Norman Borlaug Articles and Interviews

Unsung
Hero: The Man Who Fed the WorldLeon Hesser has completed his next book and it is due on bookstore
shelves September, 2006. It is the engaging biography of his long time
friend and colleague Norman Borlaug.

Food
for ThoughtThe Wall Street Journal, By Norman Borlaug and Jimmy Carter, October
14, 2005
More than half of the world's 800 million hungry people are small-scale
farmers who cultivate marginal lands. Because there are so many hungry
and suffering people, particularly in Africa, attacks on science and biotechnology
are especially pernicious.

Billions
Served
Reason Magazine, April 2000Who has saved more human lives than anyone else in history? Who won
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970? Who still teaches at Texas A&M at the
age of 86. The answer is Norman Borlaug.

Forgotten
Benefactor of Humanity
The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997 Norman Borlaug, the agronomist whose discoveries sparked the Green
Revolution, has saved literally millions of lives, yet he is hardly a
household name.

The Green
Visionary Who Has Banished Famine From The World The Times (UK), February 21, 2004 Borlaug's work saved the Indian sub-continent from mass starvation.Without
the hybrid wheats it was Borlaug's life's mission to develop and promote
among the world's poorest farmers, few believe that this population could
have been sustained.

Soul Behind
the ManThe Pioneer (New Delhi, India), By C. S. Prakash, April 2, 2006
Dr Norman Borlaug tells me that I can address him as Norm. But how can
I bring myself to address this great man by his first name? He is a heroic
figure credited with saving a billion lives and has won the Nobel Peace
Prize.

Recognizing a Giant of
Our Time: A Tribute to Dr. Norman Borlaug
By Thomas R. DeGregori, University of Houston Sixty years ago, Borlaug went to Mexico to begin his life work which
continues undiminished to the present. His task was nothing less than
to create the seeds of plenty, the seeds that would feed a growing post-war
population and reduce the strife and disruption, disease and death that
famine has too often brought to humankind.The Green Revolution: Accomplishments and ApprehensionsWho coined the term "Green Revolution"? Read this fascinating
1968 lecture by William S. Gaud, then Administrator of AID who came
up with this term "It is not a violet Red Revolution like that
of the Soviets, nor is it a White Revolution like that of the Shah of
Iran. I call it the Green Revolution."

2003
Borlaug Lecture: "Towards a Hunger-Free World: The Final Milestone"
Presented by M.S. Swaminathan, October 14, 2003
The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr Norman Borlaug in 1970 highlighted
the interrelationships between hunger and peace. We witness today a
growing violence in the human heart due to a variety of reasons. It
is becoming clear that where hunger, which is the extreme manifestation
of poverty, persists, peace cannot prevail.

A Hero for
Our Time
Birmingham News, July 23, 2000 In a world that some say lacks real moral heroes, Norman Borlaug has
led a life that puts him up there with Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa.

Norman
Borlaug Blasts GMO Doomsayers
Africa News Service, June 7, 2000 "There is no evidence to indicate that biotechnology is dangerous.
After all, mother nature has been doing this kind of thing for God knows
how long," Borlaug told a packed hall consisting of researchers Kenya.

Stormin'
Norman
Tech Central Station, October 25, 2002The breeds of wheat he developed - with strong disease resistance,
high yield potential and the ability to withstand poor growing conditions
- led the "Green Revolution" that saved literally hundreds of
millions of lives in developing nations that were prone to terrible famines.

Norman
Borlaug: A Billion Lives SavedA World Connected
One would think that saving a billion lives in developing countries would
be enough to make someone a household name within America. And yet, very
few Americans would be able to say who Norman Borlaug is.

High Profile:
Norman Borlaug
The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 2001
Since 1984, he has been a professor of international agriculture at Texas
A&M, where he teaches one semester every year. But he is by no means
semi-retired.

International
Agricultural ResearchScience Magazine, By Norman Borlaug, 20 February 2004 CGIAR must return to its original purpose and to its greatest comparative
advantage -- developing improved food crop varieties, using a combination
of conventional plant breeding techniques and new techniques of biotechnology,
with complementary crop management practices.

The
Green Revolution & Dr Norman Borlaug: Towards the "Evergreen
Revolution"The Norman Borlaug Institute For Plant Science Research
The term "Green Revolution" was coined by William Gaud whilst
Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He was describing the spectacular increases in cereal crop yields that
were achieved in developing countries during the 1960s.

Nobel
Winner Reflects on Work in Food Research The Montgomery Advertiser, April 26, 2001
Science-based agriculture is essential to fighting world hunger and should
not be considered a frightening concept, Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman
Borlaug said Wednesday while in Tuskegee.

Food
for Thought
Times Daily (Alabama), March 15, 2003 "Feeding 10 billion  can it be done?" Borlaug said
about mid-century world population projections. "Yes, it can be done
without destroying the environment."

Borlaug's
Life Focuses on Education
Des Moines Register, October 14, 2001Borlaug created the World Food Prize in 1986 as a way to recognize
those who have increased the quantity or quality of food in the world.

Painting
the Big Picture: War Against Hunger Must Continue
AgJournal, July 7, 1999In accepting his Nobel Prize, Borlaug predicted that technology available
in 1970 could enable the world's farmers to produce enough food to feed
a population of around six billion people. "That goal has been accomplished.

Feeding
the World
Agricultural Research, USDA/ARS, February 2002 Borlaug and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter work together to help
more than an estimated 4 million small-scale farmers in 11 sub-Saharan
countries improve food production.

Father
of the Green Revolution - Serving Agriculture and the World Community
Texas A&M University, By Ellen RitterScientist. Teacher. Humanitarian. Nobel Laureate. Father of the Green
Revolution. Those terms describe Dr. Norman Borlaug, who is distinguished
professor of international agriculture at Texas A&M University, but
they can't possibly capture the magnitude of his accomplishments.

Iowans Who
Fed The World - Norman Borlaug: Geneticist
The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum, October 26, 2002Norman Borlaug's success breeding wheat and disseminating technical
information to under-developed, poverty-stricken, hungry nations assured
him a place in history as a benefactor of mankind.

Borlaug
Urges Shift To Gene RevolutionFarm Press, June 25, 2003
Nobel Peace Laureate Norman Borlaug says the 21st Century challenge to
agriculture will be producing sufficient supplies of food to sustain the
world's continued population growth.

Norman Borlaug Special
IssuePopulation News, August 12, 1997 Back when Paul Ehrlich predicted there was no way developing nations
could increase their crop yields, Borlaug was in the fields showing
them how to do just that.

Borlaug's
Work in Mexico
The University of Minnesota College of Ag, Food and Environemental
SciencesBorlaug is a man who knows "tough". Breeding his wheat
plants involved walking stooped over through the fields, checking
the stems for brown pustules of rust. It was all hand labor.

The
Beginning of the Green RevolutionThe University of Minnesota College of Ag, Food and Environemental
Sciences
After 10 years of wheat breeding, Borlaug had plants that resisted
rust and other diseases. Because they were insensitive to the length
of daylight, they had the potential to grow in a wide variety of climates.

Political Aspects
of the Green Revolution
The University of Minnesota College of Agriculture, Food and Envvironmental
SciencesOver and over again, bureaucrats and government scientists warned
Borlaug that peasant farmers would never accept the new technology,
that they weren't ready for the change. But their opinions shifted
rapidly once they saw a thriving crop at the experiment station.

The Nobel
Prize and More Honors
The University of Minnesota College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental
SciencesThe world made Norman Borlaug a celebrity in 1970, the year he was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. No Midwesterner, it seems certain, has
received more honor.